German Course, Lesson One

Last night was the first lesson of the German course I enrolled on. I now know four ways to ask somebody their name (two formal,...

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German Course

We recently received our annual spamming by Plymouth On Course <http://www.plymouthoncourse.com/>_, who apparently are some sort of umbrella group for the various places in the...

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Miscellaneous Updates

TermiSoc__'s annual general meeting was Tuesday; against my better judgement, I put myself forward for the position of president. Showing a lack of common sense...

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Object Verb Subject

I find it interesting that Unix commands that consist of an object and a verb put the object before the verb. English, the first language...

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I code in AppleScript and want to die

Firstly, despite what Skippy says, Boris Johnson is neither a great person nor a great politician; he's a member of the Conservative Party, which all...

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Learning Languages

Some useful tips on learning languages. One thing he suggests is religious texts, which thanks to the zealotryWdedication of various groups are usually translated long...

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Crazy Java

Have just been talking to Dan about Java brokenness, specifically converting a list to an array: FileType[] a = new Filetype[b.size]; a = b.toArray(a); Compared...

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Norwegian

My "Teach Yourself Norwegian" book arrived from Amazon yesterday. In the short amount of time I've been learning, I've found it easier to read or...

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